1. The waste rate of catering is as high as 11.7%. The annual waste of catering in China is very serious.

81 billion Jin to 111 billion Jin! I don't know if I don't see it, but I was shocked. The waste of food and beverage links is really shocking and distressing. Look at another report, and your mood may be even heavier.

The per capita food waste in China's catering industry is 93g per person per meal, with a waste rate of 11.7%. The waste rate of large-scale parties is even higher, reaching an astonishing 38%; One third of the students' lunch boxes were thrown away; According to estimates, the amount of table food wasted in China's urban catering industry is between 17 million tons and 18 million tons, which is equivalent to the annual food consumption of 31 million to 51 million people.

second, the loss of grain after delivery is as high as tens of billions of Jin, but the harvest of grain does not mean that everything is fine.

Maybe you don't know, there will be a long industrial chain from the field to the table, and every link of production, circulation, storage and processing will cause losses and waste.

Let's talk with data: grain germination and mildew often occur in rainy days, and farmers' grain storage methods are backward, and the annual grain loss rate is as high as 8%; In the storage and transportation link, due to the backward logistics facilities and methods, 15 billion Jin of grain was lost; In the processing link, due to the excessive pursuit of fine, fine and white, enterprises over-process and lose more than 15 billion Jin of grain every year.

3. Grain consumption has been in a tight balance for a long time. Food is the first priority for the people.

In recent years, although the rice bowls of China people have been stable, behind the bumper harvests and self-sufficiency year after year, the growth of grain consumption in China is still faster than the increase of output. Therefore, we must always have a sense of crisis about food security. Don't forget, for a big country with a population of 1.4 billion, any small waste is an amazing number.

As a developing country with the largest population in the world, our country feeds 21% of the world's population with only 7% of the world's arable land, which is really not easy. In the medium and long term, China's grain production and demand will remain in a tight balance, and it seems that the string of ensuring national food security cannot be relaxed for a moment.

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Importance of food:

Food is the foundation of a country. For a big country, it is very important to have enough food. First of all, for the population, there is enough food, so it will not be subject to too much fluctuation. I remember that the United States reduced its food exports because it wanted to develop new energy sources, which led to a sharp rise in global food prices.

However, if a country is well-fed and basically self-sufficient, why should it be affected by these constraints? Moreover, only one country has enough food, which is also very useful in wartime. How many soldiers in ancient times were captured by the enemy because of lack of food.